Nursing-bottle holder



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NURSING BOTTLE HOLDER Filed on. 31, 1927 lot a Z42.

ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

UNITED STATES- PATIENT OFFICE.

RUTH BAFLING, O13 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NURSING-BOTTLE HO LDER.

Application filed Dctober 31, 1927. Serial No. 229,919.

a they tend to restore the bottle to proper position if it is swung to an angle by the hands of the infant.

The improvements will i be described in connection with the accompanying drawing in which- Figure 1 is a-vi'ew in elevation showing the device secured to a nursing bottle, and

Figure 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the device.

The device comprises a tubular piece of felt or other cloth insulating material 1, having abottom wall 2. The felt has an inner protecting coating or sheath 3 of rubher, and an outer protecting sheath 3. In

practice the felt with its sheath may form an integral structure, as where the felt is dipped in a rubber solution or, has a rubber ution applied thereto in any suitable manner, and then vulcanized. In the form illustrated in the drawing, however, a thin rubber material is placed within the tubular felt body and a se arate exterior sheath is em loyed, these being cemented in osition.

he top of the holder is provide with a strap shaving a snap fastener 5 for engagement with one or more complementary snap fasteners 5* in order that the holder may be contracted about the neck of the bottle and held there. When this is done, the holder may be carried in any desired position without releasing the bottle. 7

- The means for securing the-bottle to the pillow of the infant and for automatically righting it should it be swung to one side,

l 4,5 thus carrying the nipple away from the mouth of the infant, comprises a strap 6 p which extends about the bottom Wall of the holder, thence upwardly at opposite sides of the bottle, one end. of the strap being led out a slit formed in the holder and. the other end being led through a slit formed opposite to that of the first. Each end of the strap may be provided with a safety pin 7 or an equivalent device.

The strap ends extending at opposite points and approximately at the centre of the longitudinal axis of the bottle, and the U-shaped continuation thereof extending under the base of the bottle, forms means whereby the bottle will be continually held in proper position. If the top of the bottle is swung to the right, a pull will be exerted upon the right hand end of'the tape and when the bottle is released, the pull will restore the bottle to initial position, and vice versa.

The tape ortapes may be arranged in any suitable manner to achieve the'said result. I have illustrated in the drawing a simple arrangement, inasmuch as it involves a single tape. The tapeor tapes may be stitched upon the felt member of the holder or may beheld in position by the rubber inner wall of the holder, 'as in the embodiment illus trated in the drawing.

Having described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows A nursing bottle holder comprising a tubular member having outer and inner rubber surfaces, whereby the latter surface may grip the outer wall of the bottle, said tubular member having closed side and bottom walls and an open neck, and being adapted with means whereby-the neck may be contracted about the bottle and held there, said means permitting withdrawal of the body through said neck.

In testimony whereof, I have-signed my name to this specification.

RUTH HAFLING. 

